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Subject: Re: f3?? from deepblue-kasparov game 5 match1

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 13:15:32 09/16/01

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On September 16, 2001 at 00:36:22, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>Vincent emailed me and asked me to run these.  I ran them on a quad 450 Xeon.
>
>[D]8/p4bpk/7p/3rq3/3Npp2/PPQ3P1/3R1PKP/8 w - - 0 1
>
>I get gxf4 until ply 10, after which there is a switch to b4, which is a bad
>move.  This fails low to -3.88 in ply 11, and gxf4 comes back with a score of
>-2.48.
>
>Later in ply 11, f3 pops up with a score of -2.33.
>
>Up to here takes 89 seconds.
>
>f3 sticks until ply 14, at which point if fails low to -4.24, and gxf4 comes
>back with a score of -3.21, resolving after about 1/2 hour.
>
>In ply 15, gxf4 fails low again, and the hour ended with no resolution.  It was
><= -3.46.
>
>[D]8/p4bpk/7p/3rq3/3Npp2/PPQ2PP1/3R2KP/8 b - - 0 1
>
>In this one, I have exf3+, with a score of +2.35 in ply 10.  After 16 seconds,
>in ply 10, it finds Bh5, failing high to +2.80.
>
>Ply 11 was uneventful, but in ply 12, Bh5 failed high to +4.24.
>
>The score creeps up slightly, and the last score I got in the hour was +4.99,
>ply 15, after about 45 minutes.
>
>I'll run the first one again all night and see what happens.
>
>bruce

thanks!

It confirms already what i suspected. f3 is losing
way harder than alternatives!

I do not understand why ferret needs a ply more to get -4.24 for f3
than when after f3 is getting played. Possible to shine any light onto
this?




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